June 10, 2011

Unlike many of his peers in the House, Weiner doesn't have a business or even a law degree to fall back on.

Weiner, 46, took home $156,117 in 2010, according to his federal tax returns released by his staff. His humiliated wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, earned $154,000 in 2009, federal records show....

Wow. Any ideas for jobs for him? Does this affect your analysis of whether Huma should leave him (if you stoop to analyzing things like that)?

I think this means he'll stay in Congress, at least until 2012. I'm glad about that. I want politicians to weather these sexual scandals. There must be hundreds of them waiting to burst out, and if Weiner is destroyed, it means all those other men with their Twitter and Facebook peccadilloes are sweating it out and susceptible to blackmail and various other manipulations.

I don't think many people give 2 craps about his Twitering. I know I don't!What I do give 5 craps about is the blatant lying for a week, leaving his supporters out to dry, and blaming others for a "conspiracy"

Their idea that his reputation is too tarnished to get a cable gig is absurd. Two words: Elliot Spitzer. Sharp-elbowed lefty asshats have a standing job offer on the networks, and sex scandals have a half-life of six months. Give it a year and he'll be cohosting or competing with Spitzer. It's amazing Alan Grayson isn't already doing so.

But none of that matters. He isn't going to resign, and has no need to resign. It's exactly like Adam Clayton Powell and Charles Rangel: No matter how much scandal he gets himself in, he will never lose his seat because Democrats in New York don't lose elections. He just has to (oh boy) ride it out.

I read somewhere that Rep. Douche Bag (D-NY) has something like a $5.1 million war chest for his re-election and/or already doomed NYC mayorial run. I wouldn't be surprised if he just pocketed that money.

HE should have thought of these things before he acted. I don't have to and won't. His wife is pulling down a nice salary, he should quit and stay home taking care of his new baby....all the while thinking of the things that could've been.

if Weiner is destroyed, it means all those other men with their Twitter and Facebook peccadilloes are sweating it out and susceptible to blackmail and various other manipulations.

I disagree. Even if Der Weinerr weathers this storm, no two of these situations are ever the same. The next shoe to drop along these lines will likely have enough difference in details to make that guy sweat and be susceptible anyway.

HELLO. There's always "re-districting." And, the GOP is now the majority in the House.

Losing his district only gives this bum until next June's primary. When the whole scandal erupts, again.

Or, no one runs. The district goes under ... and people get re-assigned to other places.

Think about it. His district involves Queens and Brooklyn. How did he keep this? Don't the people of Queens deserve as much representation as Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach?

The story continues.

And, it looks like a gift that keeps on giving.

Did you know Larry King opened a retail bagel shop in Beverly Hills? It's called Brooklyn Bagels. And, Lary King swears the water is "imported" from Brooklyn. Or somehow goes through the tap ... and comes out with a Brooklyn accent.

For a good bagel in this town, people will go the distance.

weiners on a bagel bun?

You know Nathans started out with only a pushcart. But he was in a great location! He also refused to serve Coke. Was angry at them. So all you could buy for a nickel was either a grape drink, or an orange drink. Flat. No seltzer.

Besides, weiner can become an underwear model. Not just nationally, either. He can stand in the window of Barney's. He'll make a living.

I think I get it. The good people of his district have hired a man to make laws for us all, a man who cannot demonstrate a means by which he could feed himself absent his current position. Makes sense.

LL said...I read somewhere that Rep. Douche Bag (D-NY) has something like a $5.1 million war chest for his re-election and/or already doomed NYC mayorial run. I wouldn't be surprised if he just pocketed that money.

I believe the law permits this. He might have to pay tax, poor creature, but he'll probably move to Florida before he draws the money to try to avoid NY tax.

You can always be a lobbyist. Requires no license or particular education.

But no one reputable is going to hire this miserable little prick as a lobbyist.

The laws there are really weird, and vary state to state to quasi-state (i.e. D.C.) My understanding is that D.C. is pretty unique in the country, allowing non-lawyers as partners of sorts with law firms so that well connected people w/o law degrees (or who have their licenses pulled, like a certain former President) can work with the law firms in lobbying.

I should note that it sure appears that most lobbyists in D.C. are lawyers, but.... there are exceptions.

That said, I think that he would do better as a talking head of sorts. Someone like a James Carville. Weiner can out talk almost anyone (maybe not Ann Coulter, but we shall see). And that ability is one of the ones that brought him to prominence. He would do a far better job at representing the DNC than Debbie what's her name, the dufus (or, is it dufa?) who is their current chair. Weiner can rapid-fire talking points, talking over anyone around, better than almost anyone. And, if he gets that sort of job, his sexual, etc. problems will not be much of an issue.

Heck, he should try to interview with Ailes at Fox. That is where I think he would do best.

I don't care what ephemeral value one wishes to attach to keeping Weiner in Office. It's a bad deal for everyone, whether he serves as an object lesson, a distraction or as anything else. He lies about the state of the country, his own motivations and the motivations of his opposition with the same facility with which he lied about his homemade porn habit. Why sentence the country to another year+ of his pathologically flawed judgment? No time to humor these people.

I wish people understood that the idiots they elect to Congress don't just affect their little spot in the world, but impact all of us. Wiener's votes impact my life and to say it's up to his constituents to decide if he stays should not be the final word. I hope the Republicans throw him out.

By all means, keep Weiner in office! Let him be the face of the Democrat party in 2012. What could go wrong?

And that, in a nutshell, is why Nancy Pelosi wants him gone. She knows how effectively the Democrats used Mark Foley to generate anti-Republican revulsion in 2006, and doesn't want to see the shoe on the other foot.

So he should stay on and continue getting $156,117 to show his short dick to women around the country? Are we supposed to feel sorry that Weiner lacks job skills? Isn't photographing and sending pix of your dick a job skill?

Police are questioning a 17 year old. He might not have a voice in the matter much longer.

This is correct. Delaware Police have begun a criminal investigation against the Democrat Anthony Weiner, who refuses to resign his post after caught sending obscenely lewd images of his penis to underage girls he met on the internet.

FoxNews:Sources close the student said the 17-year-old minor followed Weiner on Twitter after seeing him speak during a school trip to Washington on April 1. Weiner direct-messaged the girl back on April 13, the sources said, though it is not clear what other communication the two may have had between or after those dates.

Weiner, 46, took home $156,117 in 2010, according to his federal tax returns released by his staff. His humiliated wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, earned $154,000 in 2009,

So taxpayers are on the hook for over $300,000 annually for these two.

Anyone arguing we are getting our money's worth?

I mean this guy is so "busy" that he is sending weeny pics to 5 or 6 different women...

I have a hard time reconciling that with a previous disgusted exclamation to John Edwards, at the height of his scandal, to "just go away".

Here's a reconciliation that works. Having Edwards around would only hurt the Demos. Since the majority of the long-timers in Congress now are Demos, it is more likely that Demos will be bounced, and more Repubs will replace them.

To say that one dirtbag scoundrel should go, but others should stay, is to then equate good government with Democratic Party dominated government. But given the current condition of Detroit, California, and New York, it is mistaken.

"What it’s about is a guy in a position of power having a grip on reality so weak that he thought he might be elected mayor of America’s biggest city despite tweeting photos of his rod to random women around the country. When the average politician is unfaithful, as sleazy and shameful as his behavior may be, there’s usually at least some rational precaution taken to keep from being found out. With Weiner, it’s the opposite — photographic evidence, perfectly preserved and duplicable via the Internet, generated by him without so much as the minimal precaution of making sure that his face isn’t captured in any of the photos. You don’t have to find his behavior immoral to think, “Gee, maybe this guy, who’s clearly willing to do almost anything to impress his admirers, shouldn’t be trusted with sensitive government responsibilities.""

"Even now, after two weeks of saturation coverage, some of his Democratic colleagues are marveling that “I don’t think he understands how bad this is.” Of course he doesn't. Name one fact adduced about him over the past two weeks that would make you think he has a realistic sense of anything that relates to his own ambition. For cripes sake, we’ve reached the point where Bill Clinton is allegedly frustrated that he won’t step down.

I do like the implication from this morning’s Post story, though, that Weiner needs to stick around in Congress because he has no marketable job skills to make it in the real world. That’s a perfect microcosm of our political class these days — clammy, corrupt, removed from its subjects to the point that it couldn’t survive among them if it had to, and yet somehow entitled to govern them. What a unique skill set Weiner has, huh? He’s incapable of doing anything except (a) peppering liberal talking points with soundbite-worthy wisecracks and (b) crafting the laws everyone else has to live by. Oh, and (c) snapping photos of his bare ass and e-mailing them out. There’s your “high-functioning man” for you."

I disagree that Weiner should stay in office just to "protect" other representatives. First, that assumes they are hiding equally-repugnant scandals, something of which we have no evidence. Second, (from where I stand) if they're that slimy, they should resign on general principles. Third -as others have pointed out- it wasn't the original photo that sunk him, but his idiotic refusal to just issue a mea culpa and apologize. I doubt anyone would have dug any further into his activities then.

Speaking of that explicit photo, I have not read (or heard) of any evidence that it had been sent to an underage girl. Aha! Just found a link about the Delaware story. Key quote: "the nature of the communications wasn't immediately clear."

So what if he's never trained himself for anything except political life? Everyone else who brings scandal and disrepute to their employer is terminated.

Anthony's Weiner never held a real job in his adult life and never trained himself for anything out of the political spotlight. Machinists, welders, engineers, managers and college grads across the country are unemployed, what makes Weiner's unemployment worries more important than anyone else's?